I went on a ride up the hill today. Here's a picture of "the hill." See the teeny tiny break between the trees? I timed us today. It took us 22 minutes to walk the flat, and run up the hill. =]
And some scenary along the way...
And the view from the top. =]
And for kicks, my wonderful mare, all tired and sweaty when we finally got home.
Next time we're out I'll take the camera I have a ton of photos of our trails but they are on another computer.
I mow/maintain about 5 miles of trails behind our house. Mostly just trimming back trees and keeping them mowed.
I have a photo of Saro crossing our creek I can add.
I wish we had creeks. It would be something we can work on. Of course, Ricci walks through puddles without a problem, so I don't think a creek would be too big of a deal. So maybe I'd rather have a good river to swim across. =]
We ride the desert in the winter months and the high country during the summer.
Antelope Island ( island in Great Salt Lake) is close by and doesn't get too much snow, so we ride it a lot in the winter.
The Bonneville Shoreline trail, follows the old shoreline of the ancient Lake Bonneville along the foothills of Northern Utah. It's really close to home and easy to easy ride winter or spring. Too hot in the summer.
If I've got time to stay over night, we often go places like Bryce Canyon during the spring months.
Once summer is here we are off to the high country.
While this doesn't show it I live in a densely populated area. I come from the horizon to the north. I circle the lake to the right then work my way northwest to just about the horizon. I make this run about 4 times a week once the bugs are gone which is about now until the snow flies and then I move out on the snowmobile trails
painted horse makes me druel?? every time I see pictures of the country. I want to move to Utah. :lol: I showed them to my wife last night and said that is where I want to live but I don't have my family out there so I am stuck where I am.
Here's couple different trails we've gone on...nothing too special, this isn't even the cool stuff we could take, just simple trails since Thunder just learning.
I trail ride in Oklahoma and out by my house. I live by a lake and most of the other trails i trailer at is by a lake too. huh, imagine that. haha.
These are all pictures riding on my pasture. The last one is our barn, the fence you see is the round pen, it gets moved around all the time depending on where I want to work the horses.
wow y'all have some pretty trails! hopefully i can make it out this weekend. Twilight, the first picture you posted is gorgeous! with the green grasses and the trees in the back. Idaho has pretty country.
I wish I had more pictures, because I trial ride a lot. But here are some from the Valles Caldera ride. We saw some elk actually on this ride. This was up on the trail head, near Los Alamos, NM.
OK, I found some photos of trails we have ridden.
Here is one in Medicine Lodge Kansas in the Gypsum Hills area
This one is at Lake Carl Blackwell near Stillwater Oklahoma
Here is my husband. We were at the Clovercliff Ranch near Cottonwood Falls Kansas.
This is just across the road from our house. The one I posted earlier of the creek is just down the hill and across the road from this spot. Our house is just to the right out of sight. This is after the spring grass burns. Thats why the grass is so short and you can see the rocks. You can see the reason they call these the Flint hills :lol:
These are trails our saddle club maintains. They are about 4 miles from our house on a city lake.
This is the Walnut River. Its about a 5 mile, 10 round trip ride from our house. All on gravel roads so we don't go there often
Thats enough :lol:
Ok, heres one more...This is part of the trails we maintain by mowing/trimming just behind our house
1 - when Borys don't want to travel by trailer /he get in without any problems but when we move on he get crazy... we are trying three times and said enough.../ more than 40km in saddle
I really want Dancer to get her act together soon. That and find the right saddle for my fat backside. I didn't realize how much I missed trail riding until I saw those pictures. (My boss thinks my eyes are watering due to allergies:lol.
I also love the pic of the horse in the snow. Around here, you don't dare ride in the snow, if we ever get any, because it's a sure bet there's nasty ice underneath!:shock:
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